24th January 2021
If we had learnt anything from the pandemic, and the continuing anti-mask, anti-lockdown and anti-vaxx protests indicate that we really haven’t, it would surely have been the toll of long-term isolation and incarceration takes upon individual, their families and their communities.
Which would, doubtless, have been a useful lesson to have learned as we look toward rebuilding our post-pandemic world and ponder what to do with any rule-breakers, rabble-rousers and former U.S. Presidents deemed to have committed crimes during these unusual times.
And that’s where critical criminologist Prof. Phil Scraton comes in, drawing on decades of research, to oppose any further expansion of our burgeoning and burdensome prison population and propose an evidence-based approach to prison reform and perhaps abolition.
Cambridge Skeptics
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